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Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

This is grounded in the assertion that a website’s HTML/CSS is a protected computer program that an ad blocker intervenes in the in-memory execution structures (DOM, CSSOM, rendering tree), this constituting unlawful reproduction and modification.

This would also ban Dark Mode features and extensions.

[-] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 3 points 5 hours ago

This would ban most of computing tbh

this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025

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